To Whom It May Concern,

To begin by jumping in the deep end I want to talk about motives. I suppose in a way I am offering no new light or information but I started thinking about this when all of the Stop Kony 2012 posts began on Facebook. A man - so evil as to have half the world utterly outraged - has acted. He has voluntarily chosen his path. What happened to make a man so twisted? What possible motives could he have had? I am in no way suggesting that, had he had logical motives it could excuse his actions, quite the opposite really. What I want to know is what course of events does he have that he could even begin to justify his actions with? If you don't know about Kony, don't take my words on his atrocities as the most reliable source for they will be coloured by anger. Check out this page run by Invisible Children instead; http://kony2012.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/.

Is it possible for a person's motives to be justifiable at all regardless of their actions? I think so in many cases. All of the people who are set to graffiti our town in the name of a good cause are, undoubtedly, breaking the law. Yet, I will be the first to say their actions are justified. I wonder what the community and the authorities will make of this mess.  Could it be that, like every other aspect of our lives, motives will be deduced by an enourmous spectrum that each individual will argue differently? At one end you have motives so poor and pathetic that you deserve to fall victim to your own actions, and at the other motives so selfless and pure that it would be a crime against humanity to act against the offender. Each person falls somewhere in between that. Will the same person who judges Kony for his actions judge us on ours?